I don't think it is hyperbole to say that HTML5 will change the way that you think about web development. I welcome many of the changes as they make development easier, and the user experience richer. With any change, though, there is certain to be a bit of trepidation and controversy. One addition that certainly is not without its controversy is the Microdata specification, but I believe the benefits of this very simple specification are going to change how you look at your mark-up in the very near future.

A few days ago I was implementing Image Rollover Effect in a website I'm working on. Most of the portfolio websites are using image rollover effect. In this tutorial i will learn you how to create simple Css image rollover effect . I am using only one simple graphic. The rest is basic CSS styling, with simple HTML code.

Summary:  Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax) is everywhere, from the local newspaper to sites that CEOs surf. Contrary to popular belief, it isn't rocket science, especially with the right library. Explore the popular Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) and Dojo libraries, and learn how they can simplify typical Ajax techniques and make JavaScript easier to work with. Discover why you should use a library in the first place and how to choose among libraries. Get some specific examples from YUI and Dojo, as well.

Everybody deserves a fast web experience. GTmetrix can help you develop a faster, more efficient, and all-around improved website experience for your users. Your users will love you for it.

Let's say you have a web site that is updated on a fairly regular basis, you have many, many pages that visitors read daily, and you'd like to promote all of your latest content on each of your content pages, including the home page. For example, the template for your content pages includes space in one of the columns for links to related content, featured content or new content.

How is it done? Let's take a gander at four different ways. Each of them handling the illusion in a different way, and each completely appropriate depending on the situation at hand.

Summary:  Are you building a Web site or a Web application? The line between Web sites, which are largely informational, and Web apps, which are more interactive, has blurred. There are best practices for building good informational sites, and those practices aren't the same for building a good application. In this article, learn the real, tangible differences between Web sites and Web apps, and then analyze your own sites. Explore the kind of sites you're managing, designing, and coding in a way that helps you improve their design and usability. Learn to make informed decisions that support your Web goals.

In this tutorial, we'll take a look and see what we can achieve with HTML5 and CSS3 when it comes to the staple of current web sites: the humble drop-down navigation menu. We'll also use jQuery to handle the effects and add the finishing touches for us.

Finding that perfect font can be a real nightmare! Especially, if you're on a budget and can't pay for expensive premium fonts. At You The Designer, we want to enable designers to create art and not spend hours searching for resources online. That's why we put together 30 Awesome &  Free Web 2.0 Fonts to help you out.

A good grid can be a strong foundation for any design. Using grids got its start in print design, but has made it's way over to the web. There are several advantages to using grids in web design, but primarily they help achieve structure and consistency in layouts. If you have yet to start using grids in your web design projects, but want to get started…we're here to help. In this post, we've rounded up 13 excellent tools and systems for CSS grid based layouts.

With the latest advancements in CSS, we now have access to powerful styling techniques, including box shadows, rounded corners, background gradients, etc. However, we don't currently have the ability to apply gradients to the text itself. Luckily, with a bit of trickery, we can force this effect - at least in webkit browsers! I'll show you how in today's video quick tip.

WordPress is the most popular and the best (in my opinion) blogging platform, created by Automattic. It's really easy to use and it's very powerful, giving you the opportunity to build any kind of site, from blogs to shopping carts and CMS's.  In this series of tutorials, we are going to create our first WordPress theme. For this tutorial you need to have a little more than basic knowledge about HTML and CSS. Let's get started.You can Download source files and you can also Live preview the theme here. It's a basic css layout so it will be easy for beginners to convert it into a working WordPress theme.

Summary:  One of the most useful new features in HTML 5 is the standardization of local storage. Finally, Web developers can stop trying to fit all client-side data into 4 KB Cookies. Now you can store large amounts of data on the client with a simple API. This is a perfect mechanism for caching, so you can dramatically improve the speed of your application-a critical factor for mobile Web applications that rely on much slower connections than their desktop brothers. In this second article in this series on HTML 5, you will see how to use local storage, how to debug it, and you will see a variety of ways to use it to improve mobile Web applications.

This article will briefly examine 5 physical notebooks that are perfectly suited for a number of designer workflows.

As a web community, we've made a lot of exciting progress in regards to CSS3. We've put properties like text-shadow & border-radius to good use while stepping into @font-face (not a CSS3-property) and visual effects like transitions and animations. We've also spent a great deal of time debating how and when to implement these properties. Just because a property isn't widely supported by browsers or fully documented at the moment, it doesn't mean that we shouldn't be working with it. In fact, I'd argue the opposite.

I admittedly don't think about this idea very often… how efficient is the CSS that we write, in terms of how quickly the browser can render it?

Many PHP programmers learned how to access databases by using either the mysql or mysqli extensions. Since PHP 5.1, there's been a better way. PHP Data Objects (PDO) provide methods for prepared statements and working with objects that will make you far more productive!

PHP is a widely used, powerful programming language that allows us to develop amassing web applications. Other scripting languages that can be used aside from PHP, are ASP and Ruby. However, PHP is still being implemented the most, and it has no plans of backing down. PHP's popularity is attributed to how easy it is to learn and use, in contrast to other scripting languages.

Though it is usually advisable to use some sort of framework or CMS, sometimes a project is small enough such that those options would weigh down the development. However, even in smaller projects, separating presentational elements from backend querying should not be ignored. This tutorial will walk you through creating a basic class-based querying engine for PHP and MySQL.

The Google Font Directory lets you browse all the fonts available via the Google Font API. All fonts in the directory are available for use on your website under an open source license and served by Google servers.